I work at a big recording studio in London, I heard this directly from Rich Costey the producer on Absolution. The Hysteria bass tone is as Ian says, Pedulla split into 3 amps, one clean, one muff, one animato, all Marshall DBS and 15" cabs, we know this. The secret that I've never read anywhere online is that its layered with not an Akai SB1, but a Kyma Capybara, which is an old weird sound design synth that I've never heard of before but is apparently all over Absolution and Black Holes and Revelations. You can see it in a couple of shots from the "Making of Absolution" documentary.
There was one article release at the time the album was released where a grid confirmed it was the Animato, Big muff and a bass synth, but the synth being a Kyma Capybara is an interesting addition.
This is the first time I've heard anything about the Capybara even by the biggest gear heads trying to follow this sound. I know in the original Absolution tours Wolstenholme was playing along to a backing track of his own bass to fill up the rest of the sound so I wonder if it was their inability to bring that setup with them on stage (as opposed to a Deep Impact which would have been a simple pedal to turn on).
@@kueller917 I would say that Chris most likely plays along to a backing track for Hysteria at the time, and probably still does to this day. The deep impact is good, but is still unreliable for tracking at those speeds.
I don't know if it's intentional, but the duality of Scott's analog rigs and Ian's digital rigs is such a nice touch to appeal to a wider audience and show that there are many ways to get a certain sound.
Chris is the reason I started playing bass, and learning Hysteria is still the highlight of my seven years of playing. the first time I played it in its entirety and at full speed, I almost cried
Hugh, I do not like it. Tone is very odd and the Timing is so off. To me it sounds like noodling. But that's music, one may like it and another does not.
Scott… little fact here that many do not know, if you bought the Absolution XX Anniversary edition, there is a part in the book that comes with it that explained what the synth sound was. According to the book, the synth on Hysteria was a KYMA Synth, it’s a very rare and strange AI powered software from the early 2000’s, and it is explained that Matt, Chris and Dom used this synth to overlay many different tracks on Absolution, such as Stockholm Syndrome, Time is Running Out, Apocalypse Please and most notably, Hysteria! If you want I can share the full bit from the book where it explains what this synth is! It’s very interesting, let me know :)
Nobody is actually aware of this as the Absolution XX Boxset was very limited and also about £140 each. I’ll share the full quote from the book if you’d like… can’t share it here unfortunately because of text limits and such I don’t think
Quick google - it is the SSC’s Kyma. That’s wild. I owned one briefly. Had no idea muse ever used one. Nowadays you could use MaxMSP for similar effects.
I think somewhere on UA-cam there’s a video where Simon posford says he’s been trying one of those out, that it’s really complicated and you have to learn how to program it and he was thinking about buying it, that’s the only other time ive ever seen or heard of one
During the pandemic, I decided I was going to nail down this bassline. Starting out, it seemed impossible to get up to speed, but 15 min a day in the shed and I had it by week two! I can even play it on my Goldtone fretless!
Hysteria is always a regular fave with students at the annual show at the Forum Music School in Darlington - but just off at a tangent, Chris Squires bassline on "No Opportunity Necessary...." from "Time And A Word" when the verse kicks in is up there with the best of them - it's just as relentless as Hysteria.
My previous band covered this. I did it with a Darkglass Alpha Omega Photon on the full alpha with the drive maxed and the blend at about at a quarter way up. As far as playing it, I just did it at about half time till I had the patterns down and then slowly got them up to speed over the course of a couple of weeks. The trick to doing it live is being very consistent with those sixteenth notes. Also, don't forget, you start first, so you get to set the tempo for the rest of the band. If you need to do it a hair slower, do that. It still sounds fantastic. What a great line.
Another big thing that people forget about this riff is that it was originally written by Matt Bellamy on guitar. The intro of the song was originally supposed to be on guitar, but it was changed to be a bass intro later because Matt thought it sounded cooler that way. So, basically, one of the most iconic rock bass lines in history... was written by a guitarist, on guitar :P.
I felt so accomplished as a beginner-intermediate bassist when I finally learned this!! I can play it at about 90% speed. Just working on tightening things up before trying to play at full speed. It’s by far my favorite song to play!!!
Wat strikes me most about this particular bassline is how _relentless_ it is. There's no pause. At all. Ever. It just goes on all the time. That and the awesome aggressive tone, yeah. That too.
You can't argue that Hysteria is one of the greatest rock bass intros of all time. Hysteria and Time Is Running Out are both iconic bass intros - shows how good the bass is on Absolution.
Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith got me into playing bass. I saw Aerosmith in 2004 for my birthday and heard that bass intro and I was hooked. I asked for a bass guitar my following birthday and have been playing the bass ever since.
I would definitely say that it's one of the best intros from the 2000s (as well as just one of the best in general), this was one of the first songs I learned when I started playing bass in high school and it's still one of my absolute favourites to jam on my Rickenbacker. Absolute classic and Absolution will always be one of my favourite Muse albums
@@devinebass I sometimes find the closest I get to the original is with my Big Muff Pi and my Boss OD-1X (either or), it’s definitely a specific type of fuzz/distortion and that’s what makes it great
As a child of the 80’s who started playing in 1989, I was obsessed with Dave Ellefson’s intro to “Peace Sells But Whose Buying.” I have to play “Uprising” from time to time in my band and that tone gives me a massive headache. I use an HX Stomp and I really couldn’t do it without the HX and an expression pedal. I sing harmonies on that song and the bass tone eats up THE ENTIRE frequency spectrum in my IEM’s and makes hearing my vocals very difficult on some gigs… but it’s awfully fun to get to be louder than the guitar.
I learned this years ago and it's so refreshing to see that I play it exactly the way you just showed it. I've seen it played a little differently but sonically, this way is what made sense, sounded the best, and seemed to be the most ideal way to play it. Thanks for the great vid!
That synth sound sounds exactly like my old Roland Juno 60 that I ended up selling to an LA studio last year for 6 times what I paid for it in the 80s.
Best bass intro: John Myung on Dream Theater's "Panic Attack".🤘 It's really a two-part intro where the bass starts solo, guitar/drums/keyboard joins and then drops away, and then the bass starts again, PUSHING the rest of the song forward like a low-end sonic-tsunami.
Thanks for taking the time to show the HX Stomp! I have had my Stomp for a while but pretty much just living on the IMA preset packs and occasionally diving in to try and create my own. Super helpful to get the experience of creating chains with Ian through these videos. Having a blast trying to learn this riff that I had not tried before this video.
Amazing work with demonstrating the tone! Definitely think it's one of the best bass intro's to any song and was instrumental in getting me to pick up a bass the first time.
Love SBL. Would you please do a video about Simon Gallup of The Cure. His basslines are so great. Keep up the good work. Love your channel. Greetings from Belgium.
So pumped you elected Hysteria as the (well deserved) best bass line ! For what it is worth, here is my take after (too) many years of Muse bass search : 1st channel : clean / 2nd channel : Akai Deep Impact (one of the 1st presets I remember) for the top end / 3rd channel : Animato cranked up full and blended, to get that raging constant noise in background (I am unsure as off the presence of the Russian Muff on this track). Very low action so that strings hit the frets with percusive effect. A real craft ! Then only on the 2nd half of the intro (after the drums kick in ~ 0:23 on original song), the bass line is doubled by a synth. But before it is only bass, no synth ;) Nice videl again SBL ! Lots of love coming your way
It’s a bass synth, layered on top of a muff, and animato. I believe Chris said “I don’t think we ended up using the clean track in the end”. It’s not the Deep Impact, and the bass synth runs throughout the entire song. It doesn’t start at 23 seconds.
@@pm8rsh233 You may be indeed right, but something does happen 1 octave below at 0:23 on top of the bass line (that you can hear isolated separately). It sounds like a typical synth sub octave. Interesting !
@@jerdure I don’t think that’s an octave. It sounds more like a change in the mix. That change doesn’t happen in the isolated bass track, which to me suggests it’s just the mix.
@xvi2383 - How spooky: A couple of weeks ago, I'd come across a very interesting live gig action photo on fb and later found out the band shown was Fugazi. And gosh, I hadn't heard that name in eons and also couldn't remember any of their songs anymore right away. Until a friend of mine refreshed my mind by telling me their 'Waiting Room' had been a favourite at a club we used to go to, back in the day. And meanwhile, 'Waiting Room' keeps on popping up around me! 😅
I used to say that CW's Hysteria bassline was too big to fit in my ear! I couldn't possibly do anything else until I figured it out. I also really like the little chromatic downward offbeat run! It's brilliant! I lived and breathed that one for days. I'd have to figure it out all over again now, at least some of it.
The intro from the song 'Souls of black' by the band Testament is surely one of the most underrated, deceptively tricky being its not hiding behind overdrive
I think what you're missing is that on top of all that, one of the sounds in the chain is going through an octaver (an octave lower I think) to make it really massive
Ok, first, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this song. But, In the Meantime - Spacehog. Wicked bass line AND he sings the song? C'mon now :D But in the pure rock nastiness lane? Yeah, probably Hysteria :)
Scott is right, the second part on the 4th string can be tricky because of this G on the 3rd string. That's why I always play de G on the 4th string (15th fret), it's less clear sounding but far more easy to me.
you won't have to send anyone round to my house, as it's obviously the best bass intro to any song, Rock or otherwise. I had the honour of playing in band with George Bellamy ( Matt's dad ) and so was able to witness Chris play this live whilst watching from the side of the stage. My favourite Muse track.
I noticed Ian and Scott played the part on the E string slightly differently. Pretty sure Scott's version is actually the correct one. And I agree that the E string is the hardest part.
I would put this and 46 & 2 by Tool side by side as two of the greatest bass intros of all time. To be fair though, as much as I love this tune, there are SOOOOO many amazing bass intros.
You guys gotta check out King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Some great basses and so much to cover. Really would like to hear you talking about microtones.
I bought a blue Pedulla Rapture because of Chris. To this day it is by far my favorite bass. I have tried everything out there and still can't find one I like more no matter the money
That riff is a nice exercise for working on one finger per fret technique. I’m a late learner who started on 6 string guitar and bass has exposed many flaws and inefficiencies! … not that I ever had any illusions I was competent anyway. 😂
Great stuff, Scott and Ian! It’s a very growly yet synthy tone that feels good when you listen to it. One thing though, you guys used the saddest photo of Chris in the thumbnail. I believe it was from a pretty boring wine festival.
Another fun fact, originally Matt Bellamy(Vocalist and Guitarrist of Muse) wrote the line for his guitar part but he didn't like it on the guitar so he just asked chris to play it on Bass. Also after the Chorus plays for the first time in the song you can hear the guitar playing the bassline
@IanMartinAllison - Thanks for the answer regarding pedalnetics - what I meant was the toppers on the 3 HX buttons with metal in the middle - I reckon, to preserve the touch functionality?
Anyone else catch the 2 guys are playing the riff differently? The 2nd half of the tab played at 4:27 shows 0-12-12-10, while Scott plays 0-12-0-10 at 5:22. Open E instead of the octave on the 12th. I always played it the second way.
i saw Muse live in Rome in 2003, it was the Absolution tour and they opened with this one. it was years before the famous olympic stadium concert, it was in a tennis stadium and it wasn’t even sold out. too bad they did not play my favorite tune, Hyper Music
Last year I found an Animato on Facebook market place for a good price. Was looking for one over 10 years. I wouldn’t consider it a Fuzz, but it’s also no distortion. Something in between. Is you use it, use a signal splitter so you can use a parallel clean sound. It cuts your lows even more then a tube screamer. Just did a Quad Cortex Capture of it, so I can use it live. It’s pretty unique sounding but amazing!
I'd pick a bunch of rock intros over this one. Runnin' with the Devil is great for its loud, simple, insistent call to attention that makes you wonder what's coming next. (A good reminder to play the space as much as the notes.) Not quite the intro, but part of it: the solo from Sweet Child O' Mine. Peace Sells, Ace of Spades, Sweet Emotion, Another Bites the Dust, Longview, No More Tears, Would, Jeremy, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Waiting Room, She's Lost Control, Lucretia My Reflection just to name some of the famous ones.
@@RossHoekman the future impact is a must have for anyone wanting to replicate his earlier bass sounds. Even Chris himself (according to the future impacts website) uses the clone.
Panda MIDI have also now released Future Impact v4. Future Impact v1 - v3 are same hardware, only firmware changes. These are still worth picking up and possibly easier to find than a Deep Impact. Absolutely amazing pedal.
I love that Mike Lull bass. But for showing off basslines, I would preferer to see it on a bass with fretboard inlays. Anyway, lovely video as always guys
I toured in a Muse tribute for almost 6 years. Before I got my Animato I used a boss OS2 ( as did Chris) which sounds pretty close. The Animato is a hideous sounding pedal on its own....it is vile nasty and aggressive and absolutely to die for when blended with a clean signal. I love mine .. I still have my Marshall DBS 400s with a 1*15 and a 2*15 DBs cabs. I never nailed this tone until I got the 2*15 ..what a cab that is. Live I used a..russian big muff, Animato and clean signal ... Live We play to a click ( just like Muse) and the synth part comes in with the guitar riff and sounds huge. The Animato is such a huge part of Chris' sound... When blended with OC2 it gets really synthy.... In all the time I toured I never got a deep impact....and frankly never needed it for any of the 2 hour set we did. There are songs where it is right, front and centre but there are so many ways to replicate what it does but despite being a distortion pedal nothing actually nails the Animato sound in my opinion...it just has something. I never used a Pedula I had an active Jazz bass and frankly sounded amazing ... I would like to say that Chris is a massively under rated bassist... I used to love playing his lines and really miss all the tap dancing on the craziest pedal board.... I still play in a band with our singer from those days.... This brought back some seriously good memories. I have a vid on UA-cam showing how I got my Uprising tone..worth a watch if you're into Muse tones.
I know it’s not the true intro to the finished song, but given the song was two tunes smooshed together, it’s definitely an intro of sorts. Chains by Fleetwood Mac.
awesome video. Chris Wolstenholme is a legend. you guys have gotta do a similar video on Mike Kerr from Royal Blood. would love to hear your takes on it! a lot of split signal stuff. it goes deep!
Absolutely. Royal Blood doesn’t need no steenkin’ guitars, Kerr’s got the spectrum covered from bottom thru mids on his bass, and leaves the top of the mix for vocals and drums.
I'd bet that Chris was influenced by Derek Forbes from early Simple Minds days - so many of Chris's baselines remind me of Forbes - particularly Sons 5 Fascination/Sisters Feeling Call era.
I work at a big recording studio in London, I heard this directly from Rich Costey the producer on Absolution. The Hysteria bass tone is as Ian says, Pedulla split into 3 amps, one clean, one muff, one animato, all Marshall DBS and 15" cabs, we know this. The secret that I've never read anywhere online is that its layered with not an Akai SB1, but a Kyma Capybara, which is an old weird sound design synth that I've never heard of before but is apparently all over Absolution and Black Holes and Revelations. You can see it in a couple of shots from the "Making of Absolution" documentary.
My understanding was that Chris only started using Animato pedals only after absolution album.
There was one article release at the time the album was released where a grid confirmed it was the Animato, Big muff and a bass synth, but the synth being a Kyma Capybara is an interesting addition.
@@davidhahn5522 That's not correct. It's been on is board since before Origin. You can clearly hear it all over that album.
This is the first time I've heard anything about the Capybara even by the biggest gear heads trying to follow this sound. I know in the original Absolution tours Wolstenholme was playing along to a backing track of his own bass to fill up the rest of the sound so I wonder if it was their inability to bring that setup with them on stage (as opposed to a Deep Impact which would have been a simple pedal to turn on).
@@kueller917 I would say that Chris most likely plays along to a backing track for Hysteria at the time, and probably still does to this day. The deep impact is good, but is still unreliable for tracking at those speeds.
I don't know if it's intentional, but the duality of Scott's analog rigs and Ian's digital rigs is such a nice touch to appeal to a wider audience and show that there are many ways to get a certain sound.
Chris is the reason I started playing bass, and learning Hysteria is still the highlight of my seven years of playing. the first time I played it in its entirety and at full speed, I almost cried
Easily one of the best bass intro's. Experiencing this live takes it to another level. Incredible.
I think the greatest bass intro is NIB by Black Sabbath, the reason i feel in love with the instrument and started playing after hearing it.
I agree. It was one of the first things I learned on bass, way back in 1975.
Hugh, I do not like it. Tone is very odd and the Timing is so off. To me it sounds like noodling. But that's music, one may like it and another does not.
Thought the same, but can't argue against this either. Tie for first in my book.
This was decades ahead of Hysteria, therefore it wins, all else equal, because it was created first
Scott… little fact here that many do not know, if you bought the Absolution XX Anniversary edition, there is a part in the book that comes with it that explained what the synth sound was. According to the book, the synth on Hysteria was a KYMA Synth, it’s a very rare and strange AI powered software from the early 2000’s, and it is explained that Matt, Chris and Dom used this synth to overlay many different tracks on Absolution, such as Stockholm Syndrome, Time is Running Out, Apocalypse Please and most notably, Hysteria!
If you want I can share the full bit from the book where it explains what this synth is! It’s very interesting, let me know :)
Nobody is actually aware of this as the Absolution XX Boxset was very limited and also about £140 each. I’ll share the full quote from the book if you’d like… can’t share it here unfortunately because of text limits and such I don’t think
I knew it was a separate synth! Chris played keys in early performances of TiRO, and I believe Hysteria always has the synth part on playback live.
Don’t tell me it’s the symbolic sounds Kyma? That would be rather bonkers…
Quick google - it is the SSC’s Kyma. That’s wild. I owned one briefly. Had no idea muse ever used one. Nowadays you could use MaxMSP for similar effects.
I think somewhere on UA-cam there’s a video where Simon posford says he’s been trying one of those out, that it’s really complicated and you have to learn how to program it and he was thinking about buying it, that’s the only other time ive ever seen or heard of one
During the pandemic, I decided I was going to nail down this bassline. Starting out, it seemed impossible to get up to speed, but 15 min a day in the shed and I had it by week two!
I can even play it on my Goldtone fretless!
Yeah it was a lockdown project for me too. That and learning Norwegian
I'm not disputing. Also totally agree the hardest part is jumping between the A and E strings without missing any notes and staying in time!
Hysteria is always a regular fave with students at the annual show at the Forum Music School in Darlington - but just off at a tangent, Chris Squires bassline on "No Opportunity Necessary...." from "Time And A Word" when the verse kicks in is up there with the best of them - it's just as relentless as Hysteria.
My previous band covered this. I did it with a Darkglass Alpha Omega Photon on the full alpha with the drive maxed and the blend at about at a quarter way up. As far as playing it, I just did it at about half time till I had the patterns down and then slowly got them up to speed over the course of a couple of weeks. The trick to doing it live is being very consistent with those sixteenth notes. Also, don't forget, you start first, so you get to set the tempo for the rest of the band. If you need to do it a hair slower, do that. It still sounds fantastic. What a great line.
Another big thing that people forget about this riff is that it was originally written by Matt Bellamy on guitar. The intro of the song was originally supposed to be on guitar, but it was changed to be a bass intro later because Matt thought it sounded cooler that way.
So, basically, one of the most iconic rock bass lines in history... was written by a guitarist, on guitar :P.
I felt so accomplished as a beginner-intermediate bassist when I finally learned this!! I can play it at about 90% speed. Just working on tightening things up before trying to play at full speed. It’s by far my favorite song to play!!!
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Wat strikes me most about this particular bassline is how _relentless_ it is. There's no pause. At all. Ever. It just goes on all the time.
That and the awesome aggressive tone, yeah. That too.
You can't argue that Hysteria is one of the greatest rock bass intros of all time. Hysteria and Time Is Running Out are both iconic bass intros - shows how good the bass is on Absolution.
Chris’s Rapture was hanging up for sale in Mansons (Exeter) the fortnight before he purchased it, and used it at Glastonbury.
I would make an argument that the intro for Megadeth's "Peace Sells" is pretty iconic. MTV used it for the intro for their news for years.
Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith got me into playing bass. I saw Aerosmith in 2004 for my birthday and heard that bass intro and I was hooked. I asked for a bass guitar my following birthday and have been playing the bass ever since.
Fun Fact: it has, effectively, the same bass intro as Sabotage by the Beastie Boys.
@@michaelmoore7568Not at all.
That's a fun one with the chord arrangement
I would definitely say that it's one of the best intros from the 2000s (as well as just one of the best in general), this was one of the first songs I learned when I started playing bass in high school and it's still one of my absolute favourites to jam on my Rickenbacker. Absolute classic and Absolution will always be one of my favourite Muse albums
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@@devinebass I sometimes find the closest I get to the original is with my Big Muff Pi and my Boss OD-1X (either or), it’s definitely a specific type of fuzz/distortion and that’s what makes it great
No arm twisting required here. Definitely the best bass intro I've heard.
As a child of the 80’s who started playing in 1989, I was obsessed with Dave Ellefson’s intro to “Peace Sells But Whose Buying.” I have to play “Uprising” from time to time in my band and that tone gives me a massive headache. I use an HX Stomp and I really couldn’t do it without the HX and an expression pedal. I sing harmonies on that song and the bass tone eats up THE ENTIRE frequency spectrum in my IEM’s and makes hearing my vocals very difficult on some gigs… but it’s awfully fun to get to be louder than the guitar.
It is, saw it live in Vancouver and it was awesome.
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I learned this years ago and it's so refreshing to see that I play it exactly the way you just showed it. I've seen it played a little differently but sonically, this way is what made sense, sounded the best, and seemed to be the most ideal way to play it. Thanks for the great vid!
My brain automatically filled in the drums when the isolated track played. I am a drummer after all.
Same with me and Matt Bellamy's guitar
Scott‘s Yamaha BB looks sooo good 🤩
They're amazing instruments!!
That synth sound sounds exactly like my old Roland Juno 60 that I ended up selling to an LA studio last year for 6 times what I paid for it in the 80s.
Any regrets??
@@mbrew3244 my son, bass player for a fairly successful band based in Nashville, was extremely pissed
Best bass intro: John Myung on Dream Theater's "Panic Attack".🤘
It's really a two-part intro where the bass starts solo, guitar/drums/keyboard joins and then drops away, and then the bass starts again, PUSHING the rest of the song forward like a low-end sonic-tsunami.
Thanks for taking the time to show the HX Stomp! I have had my Stomp for a while but pretty much just living on the IMA preset packs and occasionally diving in to try and create my own. Super helpful to get the experience of creating chains with Ian through these videos. Having a blast trying to learn this riff that I had not tried before this video.
It's Money by Pink Floyd! Send the guy.
Amazing work with demonstrating the tone! Definitely think it's one of the best bass intro's to any song and was instrumental in getting me to pick up a bass the first time.
Jerry was a race car driver is pretty legendary
He did drive so god damn fast.
Ive never touched a guitar but love Muse and found this very interesting 😜
You guys have it correct, it is THE BEST rock bass intro of all time!!!!
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Love SBL. Would you please do a video about Simon Gallup of The Cure. His basslines are so great.
Keep up the good work. Love your channel.
Greetings from Belgium.
So pumped you elected Hysteria as the (well deserved) best bass line !
For what it is worth, here is my take after (too) many years of Muse bass search : 1st channel : clean / 2nd channel : Akai Deep Impact (one of the 1st presets I remember) for the top end / 3rd channel : Animato cranked up full and blended, to get that raging constant noise in background (I am unsure as off the presence of the Russian Muff on this track). Very low action so that strings hit the frets with percusive effect. A real craft !
Then only on the 2nd half of the intro (after the drums kick in ~ 0:23 on original song), the bass line is doubled by a synth. But before it is only bass, no synth ;)
Nice videl again SBL ! Lots of love coming your way
It’s a bass synth, layered on top of a muff, and animato. I believe Chris said “I don’t think we ended up using the clean track in the end”.
It’s not the Deep Impact, and the bass synth runs throughout the entire song. It doesn’t start at 23 seconds.
@@pm8rsh233 You may be indeed right, but something does happen 1 octave below at 0:23 on top of the bass line (that you can hear isolated separately). It sounds like a typical synth sub octave. Interesting !
@@jerdure I don’t think that’s an octave. It sounds more like a change in the mix. That change doesn’t happen in the isolated bass track, which to me suggests it’s just the mix.
It is a superb bass line, I never tire of listening to it
Best bass intro has to be waiting room
also a good one
Awesome
NO SCOTT PLEASE DONT COME TO MY HOUSE
@xvi2383 - How spooky: A couple of weeks ago, I'd come across a very interesting live gig action photo on fb and later found out the band shown was Fugazi.
And gosh, I hadn't heard that name in eons and also couldn't remember any of their songs anymore right away. Until a friend of mine refreshed my mind by telling me their 'Waiting Room' had been a favourite at a club we used to go to, back in the day.
And meanwhile, 'Waiting Room' keeps on popping up around me!
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Okay but the version of the bassline without the open strings actually sounds like a lot of fun.
I used to say that CW's Hysteria bassline was too big to fit in my ear! I couldn't possibly do anything else until I figured it out. I also really like the little chromatic downward offbeat run! It's brilliant! I lived and breathed that one for days. I'd have to figure it out all over again now, at least some of it.
The intro from the song 'Souls of black' by the band Testament is surely one of the most underrated, deceptively tricky being its not hiding behind overdrive
I have to say a solid YES!!!!! This intro is so iconic and so unique. Timeless and badass!
I think what you're missing is that on top of all that, one of the sounds in the chain is going through an octaver (an octave lower I think) to make it really massive
It’s not an octave, it’s a sawtooth synthesizer overdub.
@@Farewelltokingz there absolutely is something that is doubling the line an octave lower, synth or not.
Gameplaymetal I believe your correct on the octaver pedal it’s as simple as that, well simple being relative lol
@@GamePlayMetal It’s 3 layered on top of each other. animato, Big Muff and a midi sawtooth bass synth. There’s no Octave on this track.
@@stevenerwin6202 It’s not an Octave pedal. It’s a midi bass synth.
Absolutely love that Yamaha BB you have there Scott
It's an amazing instrument!!
I agree - def the best bass intro in rock. Not just because of how straight out of the gate it is, but the tone and groove are so legendary.
Hysteria is massive. I've tried to emulate the sound with my Big Muff and other stuff but always end up short haha. I love Chris' bass lines
Ok, first, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this song. But, In the Meantime - Spacehog. Wicked bass line AND he sings the song? C'mon now :D But in the pure rock nastiness lane? Yeah, probably Hysteria
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My favourite rock bass intro is "I don't believe a word" by Motörhead. Simple but pure rock'n'roll
Scott is right, the second part on the 4th string can be tricky because of this G on the 3rd string. That's why I always play de G on the 4th string (15th fret), it's less clear sounding but far more easy to me.
There are countless great bass intros. I think the most immediate and perfect bass intro is from Waiting Room/Fugazi
you won't have to send anyone round to my house, as it's obviously the best bass intro to any song, Rock or otherwise. I had the honour of playing in band with George Bellamy ( Matt's dad ) and so was able to witness Chris play this live whilst watching from the side of the stage. My favourite Muse track.
This probably is the best bass intro, but I also really love the bass intro to “In the Meantime” by Space Hog.
The synchronized head bobbin!
Dead Kennedy’s Holiday in Cambodia is a great one! Come Together is amazing! I love Hysteria for sure. But nothing beats Money!
Forest Fire is a cool one too.
Come on, Money is such a shitty track
I noticed Ian and Scott played the part on the E string slightly differently. Pretty sure Scott's version is actually the correct one. And I agree that the E string is the hardest part.
Its funny i just bought the entire album on vinyl, i absolutely love it!
I would put this and 46 & 2 by Tool side by side as two of the greatest bass intros of all time. To be fair though, as much as I love this tune, there are SOOOOO many amazing bass intros.
I absolutely love this intro my personal favorite of all time is the intro to carousel by blink 182
Yes definitely up there.
One of my favourite intros for sure. Once I hear this song I really crank it up. 100%
I really needed this. Man.
Me too 🤠
You guys gotta check out King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Some great basses and so much to cover. Really would like to hear you talking about microtones.
Love KG!!
I bought a blue Pedulla Rapture because of Chris. To this day it is by far my favorite bass. I have tried everything out there and still can't find one I like more no matter the money
That riff is a nice exercise for working on one finger per fret technique.
I’m a late learner who started on 6 string guitar and bass has exposed many flaws and inefficiencies! … not that I ever had any illusions I was competent anyway. 😂
Great stuff, Scott and Ian! It’s a very growly yet synthy tone that feels good when you listen to it. One thing though, you guys used the saddest photo of Chris in the thumbnail. I believe it was from a pretty boring wine festival.
That must have been a pretty terrible wine festival if he was sad at it!
Clean / Fuzz / Synth / and the last bit is an overdrive (probably Animato or Boss OS-2) on a slight delay/reverb. You can hear that part more live.
Don't know bout the bass line BUT YOUR SMILES ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME,, 🎸🤠 from Arkansas USA.
Thanks Dooodes, as always - bodacious ! You both did a 'Bill & Ted' at the end !
Can we please get some cover videos with your 2 bassists playing all the guitars??
I get goosebumps from this intro!! Its hella good
Another fun fact, originally Matt Bellamy(Vocalist and Guitarrist of Muse) wrote the line for his guitar part but he didn't like it on the guitar so he just asked chris to play it on Bass. Also after the Chorus plays for the first time in the song you can hear the guitar playing the bassline
@IanMartinAllison - Thanks for the answer regarding pedalnetics - what I meant was the toppers on the 3 HX buttons with metal in the middle - I reckon, to preserve the touch functionality?
Ah! Ninjafox 👍🏼
That Mike Lull bass is an Fn' beast
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Yep! He used a deep impact! There are many pictures of his bith OOS and Absolution pedalboards and the deep impact is in every one of those!
Anyone else catch the 2 guys are playing the riff differently? The 2nd half of the tab played at 4:27 shows 0-12-12-10, while Scott plays 0-12-0-10 at 5:22. Open E instead of the octave on the 12th. I always played it the second way.
Both of your sounds… sound great.
i saw Muse live in Rome in 2003, it was the Absolution tour and they opened with this one.
it was years before the famous olympic stadium concert, it was in a tennis stadium and it wasn’t even sold out. too bad they did not play my favorite tune, Hyper Music
Last year I found an Animato on Facebook market place for a good price. Was looking for one over 10 years.
I wouldn’t consider it a Fuzz, but it’s also no distortion. Something in between.
Is you use it, use a signal splitter so you can use a parallel clean sound. It cuts your lows even more then a tube screamer.
Just did a Quad Cortex Capture of it, so I can use it live.
It’s pretty unique sounding but amazing!
I'd pick a bunch of rock intros over this one. Runnin' with the Devil is great for its loud, simple, insistent call to attention that makes you wonder what's coming next. (A good reminder to play the space as much as the notes.) Not quite the intro, but part of it: the solo from Sweet Child O' Mine. Peace Sells, Ace of Spades, Sweet Emotion, Another Bites the Dust, Longview, No More Tears, Would, Jeremy, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Waiting Room, She's Lost Control, Lucretia My Reflection just to name some of the famous ones.
A main streat rock station in Philly, which wouldn't play Muse on a slow day (pre-Starlight), did a best bass line contest, and Hysteria won.
100% Akai Deep Impact - had one - its right there! Liked it so much I bought three when they discontinued it!
One of the same guys who designed the Deep Impact released the Future Impact, and it has the original Deep Impact presets. :)
@@RossHoekman the future impact is a must have for anyone wanting to replicate his earlier bass sounds. Even Chris himself (according to the future impacts website) uses the clone.
@@pm8rsh233 I don't doubt it. I rely on the Future Impact heavily for my main gig (80's pop/new wave), so I know how good it is! 👍
Panda MIDI have also now released Future Impact v4. Future Impact v1 - v3 are same hardware, only firmware changes. These are still worth picking up and possibly easier to find than a Deep Impact. Absolutely amazing pedal.
@@WestOfBen What’s the difference between v3 and 4?
Sweet Emotion.intro is pretty damn good.
Kajagoogoo's. "Too Shy" intro. Listen to it
It's actually Journey to the End of East Bay by Rancid
Wow guys great job!!!!
Absolutely the best intro😱😱😱😱😱
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For me its gotta be Tripping on a hole in a paper heart, The way Robert writes is so catchy
Yea that’s a great bass line but not really a bass intro
@@kingsecho3351 I know I know but it is one in my heart
I legit thought that you filmed yourself twice and superimposed the two Scotts into the same video for the first 30 seconds or so... hahaha!
Would love another lesson with « Time is Running Out » bass tone out of the Stomp !
I love that Mike Lull bass. But for showing off basslines, I would preferer to see it on a bass with fretboard inlays. Anyway, lovely video as always guys
5:58 back this up with a funky drum beat and you're getting the start of a scary pockets style cover
No more tears is pretty good.
Muse always have great taste in their basslines ❤❤❤❤
It would be sooo sick if you got Chris for a podcast episode 😭😭
We would LOVE to!!
I'd love a copy of that HX Stomp patch!
This is so tough to play live for the entire length of the song and keep tempo. My hands were cramping!!
I toured in a Muse tribute for almost 6 years. Before I got my Animato I used a boss OS2 ( as did Chris) which sounds pretty close. The Animato is a hideous sounding pedal on its own....it is vile nasty and aggressive and absolutely to die for when blended with a clean signal. I love mine .. I still have my Marshall DBS 400s with a 1*15 and a 2*15 DBs cabs. I never nailed this tone until I got the 2*15 ..what a cab that is. Live I used a..russian big muff, Animato and clean signal ... Live We play to a click ( just like Muse) and the synth part comes in with the guitar riff and sounds huge. The Animato is such a huge part of Chris' sound... When blended with OC2 it gets really synthy.... In all the time I toured I never got a deep impact....and frankly never needed it for any of the 2 hour set we did. There are songs where it is right, front and centre but there are so many ways to replicate what it does but despite being a distortion pedal nothing actually nails the Animato sound in my opinion...it just has something. I never used a Pedula I had an active Jazz bass and frankly sounded amazing ...
I would like to say that Chris is a massively under rated bassist... I used to love playing his lines and really miss all the tap dancing on the craziest pedal board.... I still play in a band with our singer from those days.... This brought back some seriously good memories.
I have a vid on UA-cam showing how I got my Uprising tone..worth a watch if you're into Muse tones.
It's a great bass intro, some other worthwhile mentions: Monaco, what do you want from me and Kasabian, club foot.. both wonderful too 🤟
My favourite bassline to play
I know it’s not the true intro to the finished song, but given the song was two tunes smooshed together, it’s definitely an intro of sorts. Chains by Fleetwood Mac.
How about 46 & 2 by Tool? Shout out to the editor for the raptor bass.
also a good one. Would? from AIC is high up there too
awesome video. Chris Wolstenholme is a legend. you guys have gotta do a similar video on Mike Kerr from Royal Blood. would love to hear your takes on it! a lot of split signal stuff. it goes deep!
Absolutely. Royal Blood doesn’t need no steenkin’ guitars, Kerr’s got the spectrum covered from bottom thru mids on his bass, and leaves the top of the mix for vocals and drums.
Oooooh +1 for Aerosmith Sweet Emotion. Also Jane's Addiction Summertime Roll was huge for me.
I'd bet that Chris was influenced by Derek Forbes from early Simple Minds days - so many of Chris's baselines remind me of Forbes - particularly Sons 5 Fascination/Sisters Feeling Call era.